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"Ian is the consummate professional. His easy style coupled with his vast knowledge of the subject and Vistage meant my members enjoyed it and got max value. His one page takeaway is perfect. One of our best speakers yet."

Keith Stewart, Vistage Chair, Yorkshire

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Ian Windle

Ian has worked as a Consultant, Facilitator, Speaker and Coach in the areas of Leadership, Culture Change and Communication since 1994, in both the private and public sectors. He facilitated workshops, spoken at conferences and led programmes in Europe, USA and Asia.

In 2006 Ian set up his own business IanWindle.com, focusing purely on developing leaders through speaking, coaching and developing high performing teams. He became a Group Chairman with Vistage in May 2012 and works with two groups of Chief Executives and business owners in Surrey. He has won the Chair Excellence Award every year since 2014.

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Ian’s first career saw him travel the world with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office where, over a sixteen year career, he worked in a variety of political assignments. Ian then joined Celemi International where he was Head of their global Learning Consulting Business and Managing Director of their UK office.

He has an MBA from Henley Management College, where he specialised in Strategic Marketing, a Diploma in Marketing, is a Chartered Member of the Institute of Personnel and Development and is a Belbin Team Roles accredited facilitator.

He has an MBA from Henley Business School, is a Chartered Member of the Institute of Personnel and Development, has an Executive and Corporate Coaching Diploma (ILM7), a Diploma in Marketing and is an Accredited Belbin Team Roles Facilitator.

In 2018 Ian became a Vistage Speaker. In his first year he delivered 19 speaker workshop and won two awards: ‘Outperformer’ and ‘Most In Demand New Speaker’. He currently delivers two Vistage Speaker Workshops: Emotional and Rational Leadership, which form two parts of The Leadership Map. In November 2018 Ian delivered a TEDx talk entitled “Why you should have an unreasonable dream”.

The Leadership Map Part 2: Rational Leadership

This interactive workshop provides an overview of all the key elements of leadership, in an easily digestible form (the Leadership Map), before focusing on the five leadership practices that CEOs and business leaders need to do exceptionally well to create and execute their strategy.

This interactive and engaging workshop provides participants with an overview of all the key elements of leadership, in an easily digestible form (the Leadership Map), before focusing on the five leadership practices that CEOs and business leaders need to do exceptionally well to create and execute their strategy: Rational Leadership.

Each part of the workshop is delivered through theory and context, best practice examples, relevant stories from the speaker’s own experience and finally discussion and personal actions plans.

Each participant is provided with a personal A3 fold out with details of each of the five elements of Rational Leadership. During the workshop they will score their own leadership understanding and performance in each area and develop actions to take away.

Outline:

The Leadership Map is explained through an overview of the three key areas of leading a business: Belief and Behaviour, Planning and Execution and Challenge and Support.

Each of the five areas of Rational leadership are then covered in detail:

A) Creating your Strategy

B) Having the right Organisational Structure

C) Developing your Strategic Priorities

D) Measuring your Success

E) Executing through your Meeting Rhythm

Outcomes:

When looking at the five areas of Rational Leadership, it is clear that each area could easily fill a workshop on its own, however, it is also clear that participants will each score differently on the five areas. The workshop is designed therefore, to provide everyone with enough detail and best practice examples to score their individual performance, and then to develop personalised action plans to improve their leadership and hence the performance of their business.

Workshop requirements and handouts:

Flat screen or projector and screen (ideally with audio built in), HDMI connector, flipchart pad and pens. Members will be given a main handout on the day along with a reading list for each area covered. For the Rational Leadership workshop a number of extra handouts are provided. All the slides will be provided after the session by pdf and sent to the Chair for distribution. All videos are available on YouTube.

The Leadership Map Part 1: Emotional Leadership

This interactive and engaging workshop provides participants with an overview of all the key elements of leadership, then focuses on the eight leadership practices that business leaders should be spending most of their time on: Emotional Leadership.

This interactive and engaging workshop provides participants with an overview of all the key elements of leadership, in an easily digestible form (the Leadership Map), before focusing on the eight leadership practices that CEOs and business leaders should be spending most of their time on: Emotional Leadership.

Each part of the workshop is delivered through theory and context, best practice examples, relevant stories from the speaker’s own experience and finally discussion and personal actions plans.

Each participant is provided with a personal A3 fold out with details of each of the eight elements of Emotional Leadership. During the workshop they will score their own leadership performance in each area and develop actions to take away.

Outline:

The Leadership Map is explained through an overview of the three key areas of leading a business: Belief and Behaviour, Planning and Execution and Challenging and Supporting.

Each of the eight areas of Emotional leadership are then covered in detail:

a) Live your Purpose

b) Inspire a Shared Vision

c) Modelling the Way: Values

d) Challenge the Status Quo

e) Lead Change

f) Develop High Performing Teams

g) Encourage the Heart

h) Show Grit

Outcomes:

When looking at the eight areas of Emotional Leadership, it is clear that each area could easily fill a workshop on its own, however, it is also clear that participants will each score differently on the eight areas. The workshop is designed therefore, to provide everyone with enough detail and best practice examples to score their individual performance, and then to develop personalised action plans to improve their leadership and hence the performance of their business.

Workshop requirements and handouts:

Flat screen or projector and screen (ideally with audio built in), HDMI connector, flipchart pad and pens. Members will be given a main handout on the day along with a reading list for each area covered. For the Rational Leadership workshop a number of extra handouts are provided. All the slides will be provided after the session by pdf and sent to the Chair for distribution. All videos are available on YouTube.

The Leadership Map Part 2: Rational Leadership

This interactive workshop provides an overview of all the key elements of leadership, in an easily digestible form (the Leadership Map), before focusing on the five leadership practices that CEOs and business leaders need to do exceptionally well to create and execute their strategy.

This interactive and engaging workshop provides participants with an overview of all the key elements of leadership, in an easily digestible form (the Leadership Map), before focusing on the five leadership practices that CEOs and business leaders need to do exceptionally well to create and execute their strategy: Rational Leadership.

Each part of the workshop is delivered through theory and context, best practice examples, relevant stories from the speaker’s own experience and finally discussion and personal actions plans.

Each participant is provided with a personal A3 fold out with details of each of the five elements of Rational Leadership. During the workshop they will score their own leadership understanding and performance in each area and develop actions to take away.

Outline:

The Leadership Map is explained through an overview of the three key areas of leading a business: Belief and Behaviour, Planning and Execution and Challenge and Support.

Each of the five areas of Rational leadership are then covered in detail:

A) Creating your Strategy

B) Having the right Organisational Structure

C) Developing your Strategic Priorities

D) Measuring your Success

E) Executing through your Meeting Rhythm

Outcomes:

When looking at the five areas of Rational Leadership, it is clear that each area could easily fill a workshop on its own, however, it is also clear that participants will each score differently on the five areas. The workshop is designed therefore, to provide everyone with enough detail and best practice examples to score their individual performance, and then to develop personalised action plans to improve their leadership and hence the performance of their business.

Workshop requirements and handouts:

Flat screen or projector and screen (ideally with audio built in), HDMI connector, flipchart pad and pens. Members will be given a main handout on the day along with a reading list for each area covered. For the Rational Leadership workshop a number of extra handouts are provided. All the slides will be provided after the session by pdf and sent to the Chair for distribution. All videos are available on YouTube.

The Leadership Map Part 1: Emotional Leadership

This interactive and engaging workshop provides participants with an overview of all the key elements of leadership, then focuses on the eight leadership practices that business leaders should be spending most of their time on: Emotional Leadership.

This interactive and engaging workshop provides participants with an overview of all the key elements of leadership, in an easily digestible form (the Leadership Map), before focusing on the eight leadership practices that CEOs and business leaders should be spending most of their time on: Emotional Leadership.

Each part of the workshop is delivered through theory and context, best practice examples, relevant stories from the speaker’s own experience and finally discussion and personal actions plans.

Each participant is provided with a personal A3 fold out with details of each of the eight elements of Emotional Leadership. During the workshop they will score their own leadership performance in each area and develop actions to take away.

Outline:

The Leadership Map is explained through an overview of the three key areas of leading a business: Belief and Behaviour, Planning and Execution and Challenging and Supporting.

Each of the eight areas of Emotional leadership are then covered in detail:

a) Live your Purpose

b) Inspire a Shared Vision

c) Modelling the Way: Values

d) Challenge the Status Quo

e) Lead Change

f) Develop High Performing Teams

g) Encourage the Heart

h) Show Grit

Outcomes:

When looking at the eight areas of Emotional Leadership, it is clear that each area could easily fill a workshop on its own, however, it is also clear that participants will each score differently on the eight areas. The workshop is designed therefore, to provide everyone with enough detail and best practice examples to score their individual performance, and then to develop personalised action plans to improve their leadership and hence the performance of their business.

Workshop requirements and handouts:

Flat screen or projector and screen (ideally with audio built in), HDMI connector, flipchart pad and pens. Members will be given a main handout on the day along with a reading list for each area covered. For the Rational Leadership workshop a number of extra handouts are provided. All the slides will be provided after the session by pdf and sent to the Chair for distribution. All videos are available on YouTube.